| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7168236 |
Compact lightweight ramjet engines incorporating swirl augmented combustion with improved perfor |
January 30, 2007 |
| A ramjet powered device that utilizes a novel swirl generator for rapidly and efficiently atomizing, vaporizing, as necessary, and mixing a fuel into an oxidant. The swirl generator converts an oxidant flow into a turbulent, three-dimensional flowfield into which the fuel is introduced. |
| 7137255 |
Compact swirl augmented afterburners for gas turbine engines |
November 21, 2006 |
| An afterburner apparatus that utilizes a novel swirl generator for rapidly and efficiently atomizing, vaporizing, as necessary, and mixing a fuel and an oxidant. The swirl generator converts an oxidant flow into a turbulent, three-dimensional flowfield into which the fuel is introduced. |
| 6968695 |
Compact lightweight ramjet engines incorporating swirl augmented combustion with improved perfor |
November 29, 2005 |
| A ramjet powered device that utilizes a novel swirl generator for rapidly and efficiently atomizing, vaporizing, as necessary, and mixing a fuel into an oxidant. The swirl generator converts an oxidant flow into a turbulent, three-dimensional flowfield into which the fuel is introduced. |
| 6912857 |
Torch igniter |
July 5, 2005 |
| An improved torch igniter for use in devices such as thrust augmenters, gas turbine engines, ramjets, combined-cycle engines and industrial burners. The torch igniter includes a housing with a combustion chamber. Fuel and oxidizer are delivered into the combustion chamber and ignited by |
| 6907724 |
Combined cycle engines incorporating swirl augmented combustion for reduced volume and weight an |
June 21, 2005 |
| A combined-cycle engine having at least one core engine and at least one ramjet engine. The ramjet utilizes a novel swirl generator for rapidly and efficiently atomizing, vaporizing, as necessary, and mixing a fuel into an oxidant. The swirl generator converts an oxidant flow into a turb |
| 6895756 |
Compact swirl augmented afterburners for gas turbine engines |
May 24, 2005 |
| An afterburner apparatus that utilizes a novel swirl generator for rapidly and efficiently atomizing, vaporizing, as necessary, and mixing a fuel into an oxidant. The swirl generator converts an oxidant flow into a turbulent, three-dimensional flowfield into which the fuel is introduced. |
| 6820411 |
Compact, lightweight high-performance lift thruster incorporating swirl-augmented oxidizer/fuel |
November 23, 2004 |
| An apparatus for providing propulsive power that utilizes a novel swirl generator for rapidly and efficiently atomizing, vaporizing, as necessary, and mixing a fuel into an oxidant. The swirl generator converts an oxidant flow into a turbulent, three-dimensional flowfield into which the |
| 6748735 |
Torch igniter |
June 15, 2004 |
| An improved torch igniter for use in devices such as thrust augmenters, gas turbine engines, ramjets, combined-cycle engines and industrial burners. The torch igniter includes a housing with a combustion chamber. Fuel and oxidizer are delivered into the combustion chamber and ignited by |
| 5109669 |
Passive self-contained auto ignition system |
May 5, 1992 |
| This invention relates to a passive self-contained auto ignition system for a hydrogen-oxygen fueled rocket engine. When the fuel for the engine is turned on, the gas pressure in the inlet tube 1 can be used to heat a small portion of the hydrogen in a resonance tube 4 and inject hot |
| 4790721 |
Blade assembly |
December 13, 1988 |
| An airfoil-shaped blade assembly having a metallic core, thin coolant liner and ceramic blade jacket includes variable-size cooling passages and a circumferential stagnant air gap to provide a substantially cooler core temperature during high temperature operations. |
| 4759528 |
Valve actuator |
July 26, 1988 |
| A lightweight propellant valve is provided which incorporates a magnetic flux-shifting actuator associated with a magnetic coil for determining a flux flow path therein. |
| 4745670 |
Method for making chemical laser nozzle arrays |
May 24, 1988 |
| A method for making chemical laser nozzle arrays in which individual mandrels are molded of plastic material in the shape of the nozzle openings. The mandrels are secured with the mouth end attached to a base plate. Metal is electrodeposited on the base plate to a thickness in excess |
| 4307842 |
Nozzle particularly for lasers |
December 29, 1981 |
| A plurality of arcuate, secondary (fuel) nozzle members are juxtaposed, so that respective two of them define between them a curved, primary slit nozzle, producing a primary (oxidizer) expansion flow while the two flows mix downstream, predominantly transversely to the expansion. The noz |
